The food you eat is important. It provides the nutrients that are the building blocks for every cell structure and function. You must get all the essential nutrients from your food which includes many amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and water. Food can also be a source of toxins or allergens that contribute to degeneration, symptoms and conditions. Finding the right balance for you is crucial to your good health.

Why do I say that digestion and the other systems are more important than food? Because in order to get the nutrients out of the food you eat and into the body, the food has to be properly broken down and the nutrients absorbed. The only way that fresh, organic steamed spinach benefits a person is if their body can get the nutrients from the spinach into the blood/lymph and to the cells. While digestion is key for this to occur, all other systems must also be working well to attain good health as everything in the body works synergistically together. In addition, a healthy, sealed, and functioning digestive system, microbiome, and immune system are essential for protecting against the toxins and irritants inevitably present in consumed food, even ‘healthy’ food.

How on earth could what you think and believe affect your health? What a person thinks and believes often determines their habits and patterns as well as their choices and actions. What we think and believe are often learned over a lifetime with much contribution from families, school, peers, social media, and advertising. We typically believe something when we perceive it is the truth. Some things, however, may not actually be true, but a person develops their beliefs and lives accordingly. This relates to eating because it is often not the food a person eats that is difficult to change but their behavior or pattern around eating that food. One reason why diets often fail is that people revert back to their old, and comfortable way of eating afterward trying to change food but not habits.